Background
Jagt, Guy Vander was born on August 26, 1931 in Cadillac, Michigan, United States. Son of Harry and Marie (Copier) Vander Jagt.
Jagt, Guy Vander was born on August 26, 1931 in Cadillac, Michigan, United States. Son of Harry and Marie (Copier) Vander Jagt.
Hope College (Bachelor of Arts, 1953). Friedrich Wilhelm University, Germany. Yale Divinity school (Bachelor of Arts, 1957).
Georgetown Law School. University of Michigan (Juris Doctor, 1960). Spoken languages: German.
Worked at Baker & Hostetler LLP (Washington, DC) specializing in Government Affairs, Legislative, Tax, Corporate, Trade, International, Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1961, District of Columbia, Michigan, United States. Supreme Court, United States.
District Court, Western District of Michigan. Blue Key. United States. Congress, 1966-1993. Ranking Republican, United States.
House Trade Subcommittee, Select Revenues Subcommittee, Health and Human Resources Subcommittee. Second Ranking Republican Full House Ways and Means Committee. Member, House Foreign Relations Committee and House Space, Science and Astronautic Committee, House Government Operations Committee.
Member of House Republican Leadership, 1974-1993. Chairman, National Republican Congressional Committee, 1974-1993. Senator, Michigan State Senate, 1965-1966.
Appointed by President Nixon to serve as President's personal envoy to eight African nations and to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in 1973. Lead Republican sponsor of the Comprehensive Multilateral Trade Agreement, Caribbean Basin Initiative, Campaign Reform Laws. Awarded a Knighthood in the House of Orange by Netherlands Queen Beatrix in 1986.
Named Outstanding Dutch American of the Year, 1991. Member: District of Columbia Bar.
Member, House Foreign Relations Committee and House Space, Science and Astronautic Committee, House Government Operations Committee. Member of House Republican Leadership, 1974-1993. Chairman, National Republican Congressional Committee, 1974-1993.
Senator, Michigan State Senate, 1965-1966. Appointed by President Nixon to serve as President's personal envoy to eight African nations and to Japan, Korea, and Taiwan in 1973. Lead Republican sponsor of the Comprehensive Multilateral Trade Agreement, Caribbean Basin Initiative, Campaign Reform Laws.
Awarded a Knighthood in the House of Orange by Netherlands Queen Beatrix in 1986. Named Outstanding Dutch American of the Year, 1991. Member: District of Columbia Bar.
Married Carol Doorn, April 4, 1964. 1 daughter, Virginia Marie.